VANUATU
Vanuatu Quick A-Z Guide.
General information about the country on the Vanuatu
Online site.
Vanuatu Cultural
Centre. Includes a brief description of the National
Film and Sound Unit.
Vanuatu Music
Projects Links -not a lot online but has possibilities for other resources
since this is set up for music preservation
-- Erin Pons
Sound Recordings & Videotapes
- Vanuatu: The Music of West Futuna. Recordings by Allan Thomas
and Takaroga Kuautoga, commentary by Allan Thomas. UNESCO Collection, published
by UNESCO and Auvidis in collaboration with the International Council for
Traditional Music, 1998.
- Vanuatu: Singsing-Danis Kastom. Recordings of kastom
music made for the New Hebrides Oral Tradition Project in the Northern
District Islands by Peter Crowe and colleagues, 1972-1977. Text by Peter
Crose. Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire. VDE CD-796, 1994.
Some Bibliographic Sources on Music & Dance in Vanuatu
- Peter Crowe. "Polyphony in Vanuatu." Ethnomusicology
25 (1981), 419-432.
- Peter Crowe. "Dancing backwards?" world of music 32
(1990), 84-98.
- Peter Crowe. "La naissance du chant a Maewo. Etude d'une musique
melanesienne." Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles 5 (1992),
183-204.
- Hgorofutuna: Report of a Survey of the Music of West Futuna, Vanuatu
by Allan Thomas and Takaroga Kuautoga. Occasional Papers in Pacific Ethnomusicology
No. 2. Auckland: Archive
of Maori and Pacific Music, Department of Anthropology, University
of Auckland, 1992.
- "Vanuatu." Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and Dance.
Vol. 9: Australia and the Pacific Islands (1998). Sections are individually
authored as follows: [Introduction] by Adrienne L. Kaeppler, "Northern
and Central Areas" by Peter Crowe, "Mota, Banks Islands,"
by Vida Chenoweth, "Southern Area" by Lamont Lindstrom.